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New Lenza and Tonali Harmonium xf Linoleum Bring Style and Sustainability into Balance, Creating a Lifetime Return
Combining the beauty and benefits of linoleum with the proprietary xf™ finish, Johnsonite®, the commercial arm of Tarkett and provider of the world’s most integrated high-performance flooring systems, offers enhanced design opportunities with the new Lenza and Tonali Harmonium xf collections. The two coordinating tone-on-tone product lines combine beauty, sustainability and ease of maintenance.
"Johnsonite is constantly striving to add more beauty and value to our flooring," said Laurey Banker, director of product management, Johnsonite. "The combination of Lenza and Tonali offers the textures and patterns customers want, with the quality, high performance and ease of maintenance they need."
Flawless Designs
The nature-inspired, tone-on-tone designs and textures add new direction to any design. Lenza provides a striated pattern with varying contrasts, while Tonali offers a marbleized look. These differences allow for greater flexibility in their combined overall design.
Featuring 16 warm and friendly colorways, the Lenza and Tonali lines are available in plenty of options to combine, contrast and mix-and-match, providing flawless results and a great match. Although designed to work with each other, they also coordinate beautifully with all the other Johnsonite flooring solution collections.
In addition to the design capabilities, Lenza and Tonali products contain cork, providing excellent acoustic properties as well as comfort underfoot.
Sustainability
Lenza and Tonali are environmentally responsible solutions, boasting 95 percent natural materials, such as linseed oil, flax seed, wood and limestone. In fact, the linoleum products contain the highest amount of rapidly renewable content in the industry at 73 percent, and feature 34 percent recycled content. Additionally, the products have earned a Cradle to Cradle Silver ranking and are USDA Bio-based 95 percent certified for the ideal sustainable solution.
Ease of Maintenance
Both Lenza and Tonali feature Johnsonite’s proprietary Harmonium xf finish. The toughest in the industry, this finish requires no initial waxing and polishing. Maintenance is faster and easier, saving most end users 30 percent on maintenance and 50 percent on water, detergents and energy over the life of the floor.
No other linoleum is so resistant to stains, abrasion and chemicals. Third party testing at the WFK Institute in Germany, a leading international cleaning technology research center, has shown that Lenza and Tonali, as well as the other Harmonium xf collections, significantly outperform ordinary linoleum in brightness and color retention. In addition, they offer alkali and stain resistance to a variety of substances including acetone, coffee and betadine. Plus, they’re naturally antibacterial, biodegradable and fire retardant.
In addition to the stylish, sustainable and easy maintenance properties, the flooring is part of a complete system that includes finishing borders.
For more information about Johnsonite products and their many green certifications and sustainable initiatives, visit www.johnsonite.com
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About Johnsonite
For more than 100 years, Johnsonite has been a leading provider of innovative flooring solutions that integrate function, design, life safety, and sustainability to enhance productivity in commercial spaces. Johnsonite is the North American commercial brand of the Tarkett Group, which manufactures and markets integrated flooring, flooring accessories, wall base and sports surface solutions to professionals and end users in 100 countries, from 30 production sites. And, with 2010 revenues of €1.9 billion, Tarkett Group is a leading global flooring supplier. Since January 2007, Tarkett has been owned by the Deconinck family (50%) and private equity funds affiliated with KKR (50%). Tarkett and its Johnsonite brand are committed to providing solutions that balance each component of the triple bottom line: people, the environment and economics. Johnsonite‘s mission is geared toward enhancing the productivity and well being of the people who design, manufacture, distribute, live and work with their products daily. Johnsonite is headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, with operations located throughout North America.
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